HHR New Media, Entertainment and Technology Group

On September 21, the DigitalHHR team will be presenting “Whose Data Is It Anyway: Privacy and Data Security in a De-centralized Digital World”, the next in its on-going series of live, CLE-accredited webinars.  As individuals increasingly rely on mobile, cloud computing and social networking applications, they reveal more and more of their personal information which is in turn used to create more and more “personalized” services and applications. While the benefits of many of these services and applications is sometimes obvious, this environment has also revealed tensions between individuals’ rights to control their personal information and businesses’ need to use such information to enhance commercial opportunities.  In this CLE-accredited Webinar, we will focus on the critical legal and business issues and questions raised by the need to protect personally identifiable information (PII) of end users in a digital environment, both in the U.S. and abroad, and how businesses can balance compliance with applicable laws and regulations while exploiting advancements in technology that enable the use of personal information to improve their products and services. Our DigitalHHR team will be joined by a London-based colleague from the international law firm of Norton Rose to address topics including:

• Stakeholders’ responsibilities: does every entity with access to PII have the same obligations to consumers?
• Privacy policies and disclosure requirements
• EU privacy regulations and the impact on cross-border initiative

The Webinar will be held on Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. EDT. To register, click here.

Matt Syrkin will be speaking at the New York City Bar Center for Continuing Legal Education on the topic of Internet rights and technology, along with attorneys from Hunton & Williams LLP, Holland & Knight LLP, and Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C. One of the most popular New York City Bar events, the conference, titled “Internet Rights and Technology: a Practical Legal Guide to Doing Business on the Internet”, will be held on September 28 and will focus on the ongoing challenges for lawyers in addressing the evolving legal landscape of the internet and new media.

As one of the featured speakers, Syrkin will be addressing the hot topic of interactive entertainment and will tackle structuring development and publishing agreements, intellectual property ownership and licensing, distribution and syndication models and content monetization.

To register for this seminar, please click here.

In a recent, high-profile transaction, the Digital HHR team represented BN Media LLC in its acquisition of Beliefnet.com, the multi-faith and spirituality website, from News Corp.  BN Media’s investors are also backers of Cross Bridge Media, a multimedia distributor of religious and charitable videos, and Affinity4, a marketing services firm focused on assisting non-profits in their fundraising efforts.

The transaction received prominent media coverage, including pieces in The Deal, American Lawyer and The New York Times.

As part of the Distributed Computing Association’s inaugural P2P market conference, Dan will be participating on a panel on P2P and Cloud Business Models.  The conference is being held on Tuesday, March 9 at the Cornell Club of New York in conjunction with Media.Summit 2010.  Registration information is available on DCIA’s site.

The latest in our on-going series of CLE-accredited Webinars will focus on the critical legal and business issues and questions raised by the emerging phenomenon of “TV Everywhere,” a digital platform agnostic solution that promises to enable pay TV subscribers online access to their programming wherever they may consume it via an Internet enabled device. Our team will address topics including:

• Methodologies to authenticate subscribers and the technological burdens of implementing such authentication methodologies;
• Protection of personally identifiable information (PII) of subscribers and controlling access to such subscriber PII;
• Impact of the FCC’s proposed “net neutrality” rules on TV Everywhere initiatives; and
• Potential business models and revenue opportunities for stakeholders, including revenue streams from enhanced subscription fees, premium advertising fees, etc.

The one-hour Webinar will also feature “live chat” functionality to enable viewers to ask questions and comment on the presentation in real-time. Presentation materials will be available for download.

The Webinar will be held on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. EST. To register, click here.